On Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 20:48:15 UTC, Adam Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 16 April 2022 at 20:41:25 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:Is virtual memory entering into the equation?Probably. Memory allocated doesn't physically exist until written to a lot of the time.
You can also exceed your RAM in a lot of cases, as the OS will just start using your disk for RAM instead, so just because you have 8 GB of ram doesn't always mean you can only use 8 GM of RAM (in theory of course.)